Archaeology Notes
Event ID 662027
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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WWI and WWII explosives stores situated SW of Eastirggs. The site is still used by the Ministry of Defence, access is still restricted. The site forms part of a larger area for which see NY26SE 10.
J Guy 1999; NMRS MS 810/6, 102-103 (vol.1)
The explosives works and stores are visible on a series of RAF WW II oblique aerial photographs (F 309, 10572-10591, flown 26 January 1942), which show the general layout of the works. The works are also visible on more recent vertical air photographs (All Scotland Survey [Jasair], 507 88 140-142, flown 10 June 1988), which show that much of the site had been abandoned by that date.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), April 2006
The site is now mainly used for explosives storage. Many of the huts and buildings with enclosing earth banks survive and the site retains a railway connection from the main line from Dumfries to Kilmarnock to Glasgow.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), April 2010
